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- Themes
- Journey, Aging
- An elderly former slave, Shadrach, walks over 600
miles to the place of his birth in Virginia, a former plantation.
There he collapses in the front yard of a poor white bootlegger and
his family. This family takes him in and nurses him as he begins to
die. They respect the old man for his age and his determination to
return home to die. (submitted by Martha Jo Chalmers, Berkeley, CA)
- An elderly former slave, Shadrach, walks over 600
miles to the place of his birth in Virginia, a former plantation.
There he collapses in the front yard of a poor white bootlegger and
his family. This family takes him in and nurses him as he begins to
die. They respect the old man for his age and his determination to
return home to die. (submitted by Martha Jo Chalmers, Berkeley, CA)
- Journey, Aging